Mount Pitt

Back you our early mornings, someone need to let the animals know its OK to have a lay in. We left the harbour around 7:30am with a few sea lions using the boat's wave to surf and jump like dolphins. Later on, we saw actual dolphins swimming with the boat, and one got so close that he splashed 3 of us on board. Another 2 hours boat ride and we arrive at our destination, Punta Pitt.

First activity is snorkeling, this time we have long sleeves wetsuits, happy with that because the water is cold! Snorkeling was a bit wavy, but we managed to see some little sharks, turtles (of course), a lot of little fish and a lot of Doras. It was fun! We then had a moment to chill on the beach, but as a couple of sealions were playing in the water, Armelle went for another dip to play with them a bit, can't resist the sealion call!

After a quick lunch, we lose the wetsuit and put on shorts and t-shirts to try to find the animal that we came here to see, the red footed boobie (fou à pates rouge). Yes there are a few types of boobies here in Galapagos 😏 The most common three are the blue footed, red footed and Nazca. This is the only place where we can see the nests of red footed boobies. They chose this place because it is windy, and therefore not a nesting place for frigate birds who are famous for stealing food from others, frigate birds don't make the best neighbours . We managed to find red footed boobies right by the path, instead of flying away they were intrigued by us and were e joying the view. Going close we could see that they have amazing colours, not just on the feet but also on the beak, blue beak with some pink! Still on the path we also found babies, and it is quite surprising that they are all grey, no colours yet for them as they don't need to mate!

The landscape of Punta Pitt was also quite special, San Cristobal island is a lot older than the ones we've been on and we can see this in the erosion and the colours are not the same. Very nice day again in Galapagos always discovering something new!Read more